Well Go USA has been a perpetual force in Asian cinema acquisitions. Director Stephen Fung’s new movie, The Adventurers, is just one such title to find itself in the throes of an international release one week apart from China and with a date now set for August 18 in the States, it’s full-speed ahead for this contemporary John Woo nod.
The film is due for an August 11 release in China while it’s reasonable to believe that Well Go USA may very well get a same day release. It needs confirming, but indeed, U.S. fans can expect it for themselves in due time.
Dan goes to find help from his surrogate father Kong (Eric Tsang), an unscrupulous and ruthless crime boss who commissioned the heist. Kong assigns Dan a new mission.
With action auteur John Woo slowly and surely easing back into headline relevance with his own work, it’s only a worthy to weigh in on filmmaker Stephen Fung now forthcoming with his own humble nod as The Adventurers looks to rekindle remake potential this summer. The film is a reimagining of Woo’s Once A Thief (1991), now the center of an adventure that sees actor Andy Lau in the role of an ex-con freshly out of prison and back in the heist game in timely fashion with actor Jean Reno as the supersleuth hot on his tail.
Also starring are actresses Shu Qi and Zhang Jingchu, and actors Eric Tsang and Yi Sha and with a release set for August 11, a new official trailer has finally arrived and quite fleshed out as a broadly-scoped international affair. Take a look below!
I admit, it took me a few months to get a grip on the fact that The Adventurers and the upcoming reboot of John Woo classic Once A Thief were the same damn movie being directed by Stephen Fung. That said, I can finally sharpen my focus a bit and follow up on the news as it comes, and now with word that filming is currently underway in Prague following the most recent marriage of Fung and the film’s leading lady, actress Shu Qi.
The film was announced earlier this year at HKFilmart under joint venture Flagship Entertainment with Fung to direct, and also lists actors Andy Lau and Tony Yang, and actress Zhang Jingchu. Rounding out the cast this week according to reports from Chinese outlet Mingpao, is actor Jean Reno, who stars as an inspector in the relentless cat-and-mouse pursuit of Lau’s role, a master thief joined by his crack heist team as they trek through Europe in search of treasure.
Lau joins actors Huang Xiaoming and Wong Cho-lam this October for Flagship’s upcoming prospect, Wong Jing’s Mission Milano ahead of the actor’s December appearance in the ensemble epic, The Great Wall, and Herman Yau’s 2017 actioner, Shockwave. Fung’s The Adventurers is currently slated to release next summer.
H/T: HKTop10
